Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash
It's lookin' like I'm fallin' in the cracks
I'm too country now for country, ain't that just like Johnny Cash?
Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash
I should've known it when they closed the Old Opry down
And things are bound to change there in that town, and they did
You can't grow if you rip your roots out of the ground
It looks like that Nashville rash gettin' 'round
Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash
It's lookin' like I'm fallin' in the cracks
I'm too country now for country, ain't that just like Johnny Cash
Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash, that's right
Ow-ho
Oh, no
Now ain't it funny how things really, really change
Hell, the pop songs of the '80s and the '70s sounds like country hits today
Breaks my heart to see all my heroes fadin' away (well, that was nice?)
Victims of Nashville's rash, Nashville's ways
Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash
It's lookin' like I'm fallin' in the cracks
I'm too country now for country, ain't that just like Johnny Cash, hmm
Yeah, get rhythm when you get the blues
Come on, get rhythm when you get the blues
Only cost a dime, that nickel a shoe, does a thousand dollars worth of good for you
Get rhythm, yeah you get the blues
Help me Merle, I'm breakin' out in a Nashville rash, that's right
Thanks y'all (two, three...)
A big hey for the Lone Stars if you would
Don Reevie, step up Don
Get in front of that microphone, will ya?
Get in front of that big fan of yours, Don Reevie
Don, Don Pawlak on the pedal steel
Herb Belofsky on the drums
And Gene Kurtz on the bass
Sing around, we'll have another sip, a lil bit
God bless you, thank you a lot
Dale Watson, ladies and gentlemen
Dale Watson
Thank you